About time. And product. And being more deliberate.
First off, the Kindle is the only device I that made my heart drop when it feel on the floor and broke. As I mentioned earlier, it’s not a perfect device. Overall it feels slow and clunky. Simultaneously, it gets out of my way and is cool enough to let me get swallowed up by …
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60 minutes of Jungletrain on a spin bike while Ghost in the Shell plays on an IMAX screen.
Many in the web design community re-designing CraigsList.org since it launched [1, 2]. Each one of these efforts feels like missing the part that makes CraigsList special to me – it’s the simplest thing that could possibly work. Anything more – while perhaps adding value – absolutely adds overhead. If only in the number of …
” I delegate, work all the time, hardly sleep, totally ignore politics, sports and pop culture, neglect my family too much and probably don’t do any of my jobs as well as I could. But these are exciting days, and if ever these was a time to be overextended this is it.” – Chris Anderson, …
Attention web designers – Sure. Helvetica is a fine typeface. Just stop using it in your CSS stylesheets. Or at least stop specifying it first. Second. Or third. There are more readable, more appropriate, and more distinctive, available for your website. If you must specify it, how about putting it on the other side of …
I’m floored it’s been 3 weeks since I’ve written anything here. Feels more like 3 days. I’ve been working with a number of very cool start-ups and Kernest is the only one I’m able to talk about. Thankfully, all 3 are on track to go public this month. And I hope at least one does …
Admittedly, I haven’t watched any of the WolframAlpha demos. I could have no idea how it’s supposed to be used. Either way, I didn’t find it very helpful with the handful of questions that immediately sprang to mind. I expect any new service to immediately show a unique characteristic. It doesn’t need to be fully …
If you listen to Minnesota Public Radio, perhaps you’ve caught the promotional spot from the National Pork Board declaring “cooked pork is safe” from the recent flu outbreak. I already assumed cooked pork was safe. Now, an organization financed by pork producers is telling me it’s safe – the conflict of interest and dismissive tone …
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As a kid, I watched The Right Stuff more times than I can count. It’s a fun story about the beginnings of the NASA space program and test pilots. But mostly it’s about egos. Lately, the opening’s been stuck in my head. “There was a demon that lived in the thin air; they said anyone …
I distinctly remember back in 1999, working for one of the first User Experience firms, when I first saw an internet-based service on a mobile phone. Then, diversity meant some devices had 7 lines of text other had 3. A few months later, I moved onto a new gig where I was designing location-specific websites …